#fascism definition

[cadavidson]

Prager U Video: Critical Thinking: Fascism definition—Is Fascism Left or Right Politics?

Prager U Video: Critical Thinking: Fascism definition—Is Fascism Left or Right Politics?   DEFINING MOMENT: Don’t miss this video. Dinesh D’Souza explains this long misunderstood and misused term. Keep in mind, Fascism, by any other name, is still socialism, aka tyranny. ~C.D.   Is Fascism Right Or Left? | 5 Minute Video

[littlefankingdom]

Instead of calling Bruce Wayne a capitalist, just say you have never read a Batman comic.

Or that you don't know words' meaning.

Bruce is a privileged white man, born rich and the heir to a fortune and a company. That doesn't make him a capitalist, that makes him a privileged man. Being a privileged rich man who owns a company in a capitalist society also doesn't make him a capitalist (it's the fucking meme again.) He has no power over this, he couldn't choose who he will be born as or where. He is a nepo baby, but that doesn't make him a capitalist.

The correct definition of a capitalist is: a person who uses their wealth to invest in trade and industry for profit in accordance with the principles of capitalism.

Bruce Wayne is literally famous for not doing that, because he invests his wealth in healthcare, housing, education... Literally anything Gotham needs and the gov cannot pay for. Literally nothing that he can make profit from. He doesn't care about profit AT ALL. Investing??? That's not in his vocabulary. And, btw, Bruce doesn't believe it should be a private company doing this. I'm going to use Future State: Dark Detective again, but in it, he states clearly that he thinks rich people should pay their big taxes instead of having lavishing lifestyles (he pays his, btw, and I'm sure he doesn't use the charity to pay less), and the gov should use this money to make everything better for others. And that's not the only time he says that stuff.

"But, if not capitalist, why Bruce keeps WE and money? Why doesn't he change the system?" For the latter, Bruce is one man, he cannot change the system on his own, but also, if he was able to change the evil capitalist way of the USA, the story would be over. It's just like how whatever he does, Gotham never gets better: the story would end. For the former, he keeps WE for two reasons. 1, it's his parents' legacy, that's explained multiple times, and he feels like he would disappoint them if he gives it up. 2, because he knows other rich people don't care and don't use their money for nobody but themselves, and if he gives WE up, all that money and power would end in the hands of an asshole. With him and his kids, he can trust that money to go to the people.

I don't have the energy to demonstrate again how Bruce hates rich people, just look up my posts about Bruce. I have used examples.

If you tell Bruce Wayne "The rich should be dry out, and their money should go to help people and make society better", he would say "Hell yes". That's that he CANONICALLY wants.

When you call Bruce Wayne capitalist, you are showing, at best, that you have so little reading comprehension skill that you cannot understand comic books, at worst, that you don't know shit about our economic and politic hellscape you lived in and the words you use.

Yes, this is because of that fucking panel from Boy Wonder where Ra's Al Ghul calls Bruce a capitalist dog.

[nando161mando]

A new definition of freedom!!

[politicalantibody]

Fascist governments are also called “The Corporate State”.

[armed-with-a-waffle-iron]

I gotta say, the politics of Jason Todd's crusade are pretty fucking authoritarian. Forget Jason for a second, I'm taking about the politics, the rhetoric, the actions; it's fucking terrifying and frankly ill-informed. I'll add; the death penalty, as well as being fucking cruel, does not deter crime; it's a historically racist method of coercion and control.

Source: Batman and Robin #6 and #23

Like what's a crime Jason? Who gets to decide that's undesirable? Who does this institution of "law and order" actually protect and benefit? Who does it actually cripple? What's the history behind this institution and is it actually just? What exactly makes you different to a brutal cop?

And look, I don't care who you like Jason written by and who you don't, I'm not talking about what his favourite Jane Austen book is. I'm talking about the scary as fuck politics of dishing out murder as punishment, treating any breaking of the law as deserving of torture and not even interrogating the unjust history that gave us the rule of law you adhere to so dogmatically. You can't defend a low-lying beach.

Disclaimer: this was not about making moralistic claims about a fictional character, it's about putting a name to a fascist-adjacent politics which authors weren’t pulling their punches in showing.

[catras-breakup-song]

I JUST SAW SOMEONE UNIRONICALLY WRITE A WHOLE POST COMPARING CATRA(DORA) STANS TO THE TR*MP FOLLOWING CULT ?!?!?! ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE IS THIS FOR REAL ⁉️

[dead-salmon]

amazing how in the span of like a month you could see 3 different liberal democracies almost collapse in on themselves: germany's coalition broke apart bc one of the partys decided that a coup attempt with a paper called d-day would work wonders for their polls, france's parliament is trying to get rid of it's shitty prime minister so hard the left and right are cooperating, south korea's president decided to try a military coup as choice of tantrum-response to likely getting impeached

but no, there definitely isn't some issue in the current political system

[sigritandtheelves]

i don't think that protesting and 1960s-style activism is the way to go this time. we're exhausted, and we'll never be louder than them. it's time to quietly organize, let republicans shoot themselves in the dicks, and become totally ungovernable.

[ashekirk]

So if anyone following me legitimately supports Trump, PLEASE unfollow. He is literally the opposite of everything I stand for. He's a fucking rapist for godssake

[jediexile]

I think the worst take I’ve seen about Andor so far was that it’s bad because it’s not about women of color taking down the patriarchy

[soup-mother]

while there are obviously very talented people talking about very important topics, a lot of "left wing" video essay YouTube basically just feels like a lot of people making exactly the same points using Ur Fascism by umberto eco and Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher as their main point of reference and adding maybe one extra original point. obviously there's more nuance than that it's just like... I'm genuinely pleasantly surprised when someone brings them up and actually goes beyond simply restating their ideas and into original and interesting thoughts.

just feels like you might as well credit Umberto eco and mark fisher as your coauthors for the video sometimes.

[theteaisaddictive]

oh good, the rabbits have discovered fascism

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

Personally, I think if you describe yourself as a socialist and also have a bust of Vladimir Lenin's head in your house, I should be allowed to smash that bust over your head with no consequences.

[yayroos]

if you see a policy that defines and enforces a precise set of exact categories existence outside of which is not considered possible, and your reaction is 'lol what about this other group of people who is between these boxes?' as if that's some kind of gotcha then you're, quite frankly, a fucking idiot.

oh, trump just defined only two sexes - where to intersex people fall in that?

onto the pile of fucking bodies just like anyone else who happens to fall outside of the picture they want to paint.

what about trans people who already got ID in their identified gender, including X? where do they fall?

on the fucking pile. unless they can get the hell out.

oh trump just said xyz about immigration - where does someone in the process of getting their papers fall?

on the god damn pile.

oh they said they're gonna make this rule for white people and this rule for black people - what about mixed people?

take a wild mother fucking guess.

if you're paying enough attention to know the exact wording of these kinds of declarations then you're paying enough attention to see where this is going. if you can't, then either go do some reading on history, or shut the fuck up. the existence of groups that defy their image of what they want society to be is not a gotcha or a 'lol look at how stupid they are not even thinking about this' it's an indicator of who they think shouldn't exist and therefore who they will try to eliminate.

If a group is big enough to be noticed, they'll follow the well worn sequence - other, dehumanise, scapegoat, genocide.

If a group is small enough that you can believe the government didn't even think of them, then they can skip all those other steps because there's already nobody worrying about what might be happening to them.

And the handful who do speak up, well, it's not that hard to demonise an individual as a deviant or a predator or a criminal or an enemy of the state or whatever.

[hunnyy-bunnyyy]

One of the funnier parts of the Tiktok ban is that it was almost definitely executed too early. It went dark on the night of the 18th, only to be back up again the morning of the 19th with blatant censoring. The message it disappeared with tried to set us up to praise Trump, should the app be unbanned. Consequently, when the app was unbanned, a message praising Trump for saving the app popped up.

[communistkenobi]

I’ve been reflecting a lot on the authoritarian personality recently and the further away I get from that book the more I realise it’s just like fundamentally incorrect. The scope of the research being primarily psychological in nature I think prevents it from reaching any coherent definition of fascism because fascism isn’t a primarily psychological problem lol. I think the book is strongest when Adorno is talking about antisemitism as a foundational part of fascism, and how antisemitism is like a comprehensive structuring force for people’s ideological outlooks, but the moment he or any of the researchers move away from that or try to psychologically profile their research participants it gets really messy. Their psychological discussion about family and its relationship to fascism is fairly interesting, and it was what convinced me that the nuclear family just needs to be fucking abolished completely, but I think that has more to do with the fact that the nuclear family as a social unit naturally fits with fascism because that is the social unit they want to structure society around.

idk I really like that book but it’s deeply flawed. It’s one of those things that you should read alongside people like Fanon and Cesaire, who offer a critique of, respectively, the colonial character of psychology and the colonial nature of fascism, two perspectives that are not present in the authoritarian personality at all. Like I think the best way to approach that book is to fundamentally disagree with its premise (searching for the existence of a fascist “personality” type), and then see what is left salvaging afterwards